To move my children's school to avoid neighbours children.

[Conair]

I have 3 children.. 5,7 and 9 and moved into my new home on January.

My neighbours are a nice professional couple
In their early 50s with 10 year old boy/ girl twins.

The twins have literally made my children's life hell...It started when I invited them around for tea... they were both incredibly rude and displayed very challenging behaviour.... they criticised my home, the food ( despite the boy eating 6 sausages) deliberately spat in my 5year
olds drink, swore constantly and smacked my 7 year old very hard over the head with a plastic sword... I vowed never to have them back and have discouraged my children to play with them.

Since then they have tried to hit my children every-time they see them, called them names and lied about them damaging their bikes and accusing them of stealing from them ( I have witnessed this myself)
I have tried to talk to the parents but they can't seem to see any fault in them and believe what they have said despite evidence to the contrary. I have never seen any discipline.

I am not saying my children are perfect at all but the behaviour I have seen from the twins ( the boy in particular) is extreme... I have a lot of experience with children through my own kids and my career so I have experienced challenging behaviours before but nothing like this.

Would I be unreasonable to consider moving my children to a school that the twins don't attend despite it being a lot further away or suck it up for a year ( they leave next September)?

Whychange schools. Every school has aweful kids so who says it wont happen again. Do teach your kids to stand up for them selves AND tell the teachers so they can keep an eye out. And when at home make sure to never engaged with your neighbours again

As long as the school is otherwise ok I wouldn’t move them, no.
I would speak to the school though.
They may well be perfect angels at school. They sound vile though.

That's awful, Conair, at ten those children should be beyond hitting others. As for the other bad behaviour, words fail me.

I don't know what you should do about school, just wanted to give you my sympathy. This is the last thing you need and definitely the last thing you expected from these children.

If it's only a year, I'd speak to the school and use this current bubble situation to ask them to ensure they keep them separate (give the history). And see if the school will speak to the parents, too.